SlaughtaHouse (2-LP)

A loose concept album, SlaughtaHouse is both an intense exposé and a roughneck tribute to the hip-hop lifestyle that broke new ground by merging the grimy lyrical sensibility and beats of East Coast rap with the funk-influenced subsonic bass grooves of West Coast producers of the time. The track "Jeep Ass Niguh" was a major hit and a quintessential cruising song of the summer of 1993, later reworked as "Born to Roll" and featured on the follow-up, Sittin' On Chrome, garnering the group a top 25 single on the Hot 100. This reissue features vinyl cut under the supervision of Dave Cooley (J Dilla, Madlib) at Elysian Masters.